Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Head, Drug Research Computing Center, Apodex
Biography
Heng Ji, PhD, is Head of the Drug Research Computing Center at Apodex and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is internationally recognized for her contributions to natural language processing, knowledge extraction, large language models, and AI for scientific discovery.
At Apodex, she leads the development of AI-powered research infrastructure supporting drug repurposing, clinical trial forecasting, drug safety analysis, and biomedical discovery. She is also the founding director of two AI research centers at Illinois and was named a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2025. Her research bridges advanced AI reasoning with biomedical knowledge to accelerate the discovery and development of new therapeutics.
Talk
AI for Clinical Decision Support Systems Showcase:
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Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Davos of Precision Medicine
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January 27–29, 2027 · Santa Clara Convention Center
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